Miniatures?

[joethelawyer]

just curious, i am not a minaitures person. no one i know is. there is a guy in our group who used to by them 20 yrs ago, so we use some of them in complicated battles if we need to. but just as often we use dice or pretzels or doritos or whatever else is at hand to represent the positions of characters.

i guess in hearing all the talk about miniatures here, and from some other posts on WOTC's business analysis, miniatures is a bigger piece of their pie than i would have ever thought.

does anyone have any rough numbers on what portion of wotc's revenue or profit miniatures makes them?

just curious,

thx

 

[ExploderWizard]

I don't have any numbers but I bet its at least a decent amount. The use of minis was encouraged more as 3E was produced and the whole 4E design seems built around using markers or minis of some kind.

 

[Betote]

does anyone have any rough numbers on what portion of wotc's revenue or profit miniatures makes them?

I don't have market figures, but I can tell you the only money WotC has been seeing from me for a long time has come from miniatures and tiles.

At least, it was so until "Dungeons of Dread" and their crappy sculptures came out. Since then, I've reverted mostly to GW minis.

I haven't seen the need for minis in any other rpg apart from 3.x and 4e, and when we play anything else (including 2e, BECMI and other D&D flavours) we don't use them.

 

[justanobody]

I bought plenty of minis prior to DDM 2.0 myself, and little to no books. Minis are a more sustainable sale than books because you can use more than one of a given mini at a time for any purpose wherein you really only need one of each book at a time.